Reviews

What a truly excellent film this is,with so many strands of love,social commentary,politics and so on.

The main characters are all played brilliantly and the photography is wonderful.

Does the butler really have feelings for his housekeeper but is too emotionally repressed to manifest them? Or is he truly wedded to his dutiful calling in service? I suspect the former. When she tells him she can't leave Clevedon because her daughter is expecting a child,Stevens's face changes,almost imperceptibly.

And the symbolism of the bird escaping into the air at the end rather emphasises the point that you have to "carpe diem "(seize the day) in case the opportunity doesn't arise again. A very sad ending but not necessarily inappropriate.

Maybe a bit too draw out?

Despite nearly all the actors being British and it being set mainly in Liverpool and the Wirral,where I live, it never somehow felt authentically "British " to me. Is it because it was put together by an American writer?

Anyway,at least there was a happy ending for some characters,at least.

I could happily watch Connie Nielsen permanently-what a beautiful woman.

The story,however,was very slow and not a great deal happened.

We finally discovered what had gone on but nothing unexpected occurred-no neat twist or surprises.

And then she just seems to go back to Denmark to save her bacon... The end.

Both defendants had a rather sleazy lifestyle and neither of them was at all likeable. The spoilt,smirking Talitha was well acted,though. Not sure why her brief was so sure she was innocent. Lesbian attraction? And the twist at the end meant we're not at all sure whether she was innocent or not. She may just have been winding up her brief or she may have got away with murder!

WHat in God's name is the final episode about?? When was that CCTV footage of Olivier abusing Angela filmed? Did she know it had been filmed? How did she obtain it to show the police? Why hadn't the devious Olivier deleted it?? Am I going mad or is it the writers??

SPOILER. Episode 3 contains scenes of sadism and torture. My wife and I won't be watching any more. Getting downright nasty and sick on the TV screen. I can't see why anyone would want to carry on watching such scenes of casual depravity,torture and extremely sadistic cruelty. This started off as an intriguing Scandi noir sort of programme in the bleak,snow covered wastes of the Algonquin area,c. 200 miles north of Toronto. No excuse,though,for this graphic cruelty on screen.